FIRST TIME WATCHING | The Thing (1982) | Movie Reaction | WHAT THE F#&$!!!
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- The Mrs. watches John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) for the First Time. Here's her Reaction.
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I love how you turn and ask him all these questions and he just stares back.
Too many questions.
This is why this is one of the best reaction channels on YT, wife actually reacts and has excellent entertaining comments, the questions she asks husband are met with poker-face because he represents us (the viewers) 'we' know what the answers are but we don't say because we want her to be surprised just like we were when we first watched.
Seriously the only face he made was when the doctor got his hands eaten by the other guys stomach lol his eyes almost popped out his sockets, lol great poker face like someone else said above me
@@InjuredRobot. I agree, this is one of the reasons why I love them, aside from their chemistry. I love how he tells her nothing, so she can experience it fresh.
He's in PERFECT up-side-the-head smacking position.
40 years later and the special effects still remains king!
And that's just one part; the blood test scene alone is one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema!
The special effects here are the pinnacle of practical effects, but they still look fake. That isn't to denigrate the skill and talent on show, but you can't make foam rubber, latex and corn syrup look like skin, blood, muscle and bone when they move. Still images are one thing, but the way skin, muscle and bone stretch, move and work together needs more. Its why I flat out don't get the irrational hatred of CGI. The only way you can tell CGI these days is either, there was no other way to get the effect, there wasn't enough talent or wasn't enough time.
@@AnonEyeMouse Yeah but then watch the sequel where they did CGI instead practical effects. It looks just as fake. Just a different kind of fake. And with the practical effects you at least see that there was something there that they shot in camera.
What's annoying is millennials who think all CGI is better than all practical effects, which they refer to as "cheesy." Most of the CGI made today looks like cartoony shit, and it will not age well. I don't get the irrational love for it.
@@porflepopnecker4376 " Most of the CGI made today looks like cartoony shit" lol - CGI, when done well, doesn't look cartoony anymore. It's more or less indistinguishable from reality now.
Fun bit of trivia:
In the winter, McMurdo station in Antarctica is left with a skeleton crew taking care of the base and running experiments. They are completely without any means to leave for about eight months. They have a tradition that after the last plane leaves they run two movies: The Thing, and The Shining. Fine films to see before six months of continuous night.
Absolutely FUCK THAT 😅😅
I'd add 30 days of night to that list
That's fucking awesome lol
That is equal parts hilarious and horrifying.
Ahahhaa fucking mad men
“You gotta be fucking kidding”........greatest line delivery of all time.
Aaaand a couple of scenes later we learn that Palmer was himself a Thing and was apparently just trying to deflect suspicion by backstabbing a fellow Thing. But it may be noted that he doesn't say those words before another person has also seen the escaping spider-head so that its survival was compromised anyhow.
One of my favorite lines in the movie, and most reactors either exclude it or don't react to it in any mensurable way.
Palmer is hilarious in general
My favorite line is "Blair, I'd like you to start an autopsy".
"Yeah, Fuck You Too" is not so bad i think ^^.
Rob Bottin was charged to make special effects for the movie. He was like 22 at the time, and he crunched like 15 hours a day or something without weekend breaks, to get the effects done. All of his own volition, he was just so invested in the project. He practically lived on the set, and as soon as production was over he had to be hospitalized due to exhaustion.
I heard he was actually sleeping on a cot in his workshop and he was living on candy bars and soft drinks, not a good combo.
Stan Winston and his team came in and completed some of the scenes (I think the dog transformation was one of his) because Rob Bottin was so busy. This movie is an amazing showcase of practical effects that still look good almost 40 years later.
For a month
@@dragonmac1234
And Winston was such a nice guy he asked them not to out his name in the credits because he felt Bottin deserved to have all the credit for the effects.
Salute to Rob Bottin & Stan Winston. Legends to the SFX Craft.
17:34...mate you're smart. A lot of reactors just think Blair's lost it. You're one of a tiny group who understand he's a hero and is willing to sacrifice himself (& the rest) for humanity's sake. This is why you two are amongst my favourite reactors. Love you both 🥰🥰🥰
Yeah but, it's not actually the case. That's what you are led to believe, but Blair was already assimilated by then. He was doing it to isolate everyone so that they couldn't warn anyone. That way, he could escape in his craft and get to civilization. That's why he destroyed the chopper and other vehicles. That way no one would notice parts missing. Blair was most definitely the first to get got, it was just off screen, before silhouette guy got hit. There's no way he'd have enough time to do all he did of he got assimilated after he got locked up.
@@FilthTribeFTP It seems you’re basing this gigantic assumption off of the idea that Blair couldn’t possibly have built that spaceship if he was assimilated after he got locked up; but we have no idea how fast the thing can work, how complex or difficult to make the craft is, or how close he even was to completing it. Hell, how much time even passes between the original assimilation (which is fair to assume was the silhouette), and Blair getting locked up? A day? Is the time difference really that great that Blair building the ship after getting locked up is completely implausible, but him building it after the silhouette scene makes perfect sense? Also, if the idea is that he got the parts from the vehicles after he destroyed them, then surely he couldn’t have started building the ship until after he got locked up anyway. Maybe he got them a little earlier without anyone noticing, but they took a ride on the helicopter at least once way after the silhouettes scene, which means he would have had to take the parts after that, which makes the time difference even more irrelevant. I just don’t buy it.
Blair was the one to originally tell the crew what the creature was and how it’s biology functioned to begin with. If the reason why he didn’t want the crew to have the chopper was so that they couldn’t tell the world what it was or how to kill it, why did Blair bother explaining that to them in the first place? What’s the point of telling them how he works if that’s exactly what he doesn’t want them to know? I don’t know, man. The theory seems a bit flimsy, to me.
@@FilthTribeFTP If Blair was already infected, he would not try to kill any potential vector of contamination like Childs or Windows (why else kill dogs if not?) . The thing still had a chance to go by helicopter at this point in the movie so why would it destroy something that would force it to remain frozen for maybe a thousand more years? He was still a hero who understood the situation long before anyone else. Stop believing that it is one thing from the start because it is your logic that makes some scenes useless in the film if you think about it well. You think you are being subtle by falling into traps as big as yourself. Sorry, but Blair's behavior is evident from start to finish as is his suspicion of Clarck. The shadow of the beginning is Vance Norris. There is no debate on it. It is recognizable among all the others but cannot be recognized by a person seeing the film for the first time.
@@thesilencer8074 actually the shadow was intentionally obscured by Carpenter by having a random on set stand in so nobody would be able to tell.
@@mrskinszszs I dont think so. Look at the shadow, it's at 14:58 in the movie (sorry, i have a copy of this movie right now ^^, big fan). With this haircut, can you tell me who else could it be?
Ok the shadow does not help but we can see its outline perfectly. No one else has this haircut unless you can tell me who.
So as I said, at the first viewing, we don't know each protagonist and that's what Carpenter really counts on. But in the second, it is obvious.
I'm not a Superman, but details like that I don't miss in the movies. And the detail for this particular scene is huge on screen and takes almost 8 seconds on screen.
Maybe we can miss it on a cathode ray screen of the time but in the cinema, we had the same rendering as a digital version of our time. In cinema, films were and still are at a resolution equivalent to WQHD. It was the silver film that wanted that. FYI, I was a projectionist in cinema and even 4K in theaters is still today, a selling point for watching a film because not all of them are yet, far from it.
The practical effects guy should have got a lifetime achievement award just for this one film.
Rob Bottin did a great job!
Rob botin has gotten several because of this movie and a couple others .
That's what they said when they bestowed such awards.
Rob Bottin is VFX Mt. Rushmore
Almost 40 years after its theatrical release, The Thing fans are still debating if MacReady and Childs are the Thing. The Thing stands the test of time as far as sci fi/horror movies.
My valued opinion john carpenter's the thing is the best horror movie of all time it's well written and you catch things that you may have missed after first watch. Movies now are just jump scares.
@@DavidLopez-yt2yp I'm watching it tonight
@@charlesjonessr3684 watch it twice you'll catch things you missed
@@DavidLopez-yt2yp I have watched it over 30 times. I don't I missed anything
MacReady is Human, Childs is The Thing. No debate. Just watch the ending closely.
Honestly I'm impressed. The reaction is always the same. "Someone stop him before he hurts that dog". Up until the dog begins slaughtering the other dogs. Never seen someone think the dog was the issue.
Yeah, sometimes I wish she wasn’t quite as smart as she is. Still, I’ll happily take “too smart” over airhead reactors like Suzy Lu who have trouble catching on to things that are supposed to be obvious.
The first clue for me was the alien ship and then the dog chase that clicked with me in that something is wrong with that dog for them to want to take it out.
I honestly think the movie would have been better without that alien ship bit at the start as it would have been a mystery in what is going on till things kicked off.
The Predator movie did the same mistake, take the alien ship bit out at the start of the movie and the audience will be wondering what's going on.
@@paul1979uk2000 If I recall correctly, the alien ship sequence at the beginning of this one was a studio-mandated thing. I could be wrong about that, but I think I heard that once. Same thing happened with Dark City.
I just made a similar comment. I love dogs, but I automatically questioned and figured the dog had to have an issue. Most people don't run around in helicopters trying to gun down and blow up dogs, just for the hell of it.
@@paul1979uk2000 I agree with you on The Thing but I think it works for Predator.
This movie is a masterpiece.
This movie got me nightmares as a kid (thanks dad!). And now 25 years later, i keep watching when it pops out in tv or on the net. Just magnificent, the visual effects, the characters . . .
@@TheAndre8900 Are u from the UK?
The guy who did the creature FX's was in his early 20's when he did this. He was so stressed after working day and night for weeks, that he had to go to the hospital. So, Stan Winston Studios helped with doing some of the dog in the kennel creature FX's.
Stan Winston is a legendary inspiration, along with everyone that worked on this freakfest : D
Yeah, the artist also lived on a diet of soda and candy bars lol which obviously didn't help. He talks about it in a video of the making of the movie.
@@krono5el Stan Winston was the best, he also did the creature designs for Jurassic Park and the first Predator. He's also done creature designs for videogames too, he did the creature design for a horror game called The Suffering back in 2003. Dude was a wizard when it came to designing characters.
more like a year
23 to be exact
For a first time watcher I'm impressed how quickly she catches on that Blair is human when he's destroying the helicopter and killing the dogs. I know people that have seen the movie multiple times that misunderstand and think he's turned at that point. She'd be a pretty good Among Us player I bet.
But he has already turned by then. He's destroying everything to isolate everyone so they can't call for help and warn people and so he can eventually escape in his craft and reach a society. He wanted to get put away so he could have more time unseen and scrap parts. There's no way he'd have enough time to build that craft if he only got assimilated after being locked up.
@@FilthTribeFTP he destroyed the helicopter and killed the dogs BEFORE he got locked up.
She figured out that everyone had to die pretty quickly, yeah.
You could make a case for that in either direction, it's very well-written so that both a human Blair and a Thing Blair would have good reasons to do what he did (in the latter case, if the Thing isn't Palmer yet or MacReady it wouldn't know how to fly the helicopter).
@@seanlewis9291 yea but then how did Blair even turn? He was isolated and locked away
IIRC Blair was in the shed or three days. After they put him in there, they mention a storm will be hitting them in 16 hours. Later Mac says into the tape recorder that the storm has been hammering them for 48 hours. So, three days. Still not a lot of time to build even a mini space ship, but it was The Thing so it could have manifested a dozen sets of eys, hands and brains to all work at once.
Also, from other sources, we know The Thing needs no rest, doesn't get fatigued or tired. 72 hours when they're all 72 productive work hours with no distractions of human nature, you can accomplish a lot...look at insects and you can see what extreme industriousness + discipline can accomplish in a short time. Bees are this way. It's not a hive of hundreds of thousands, it's one single super-organism with hundreds of thousands of independent parts.
makes me wonder if he was turned from the start, or just a human who later changed sides. He smashed the vehicles, but was it to save humanity? or just for the parts, which he used later.
No amount of CGI can replace the practical effects. They are just soooo good. When you add to that the actors' reaction especially if they see the models for the first time, it's a completely engulfing experience.
I plan to make CGI that can remind us why we like and grew up with practical effects made by the great special effects wizards.
"Childs, what if we're wrong about him?!?"
"Well then we're wrong!"
Ohhhh that's what Childs says lol damn, cold as hell.
Really rich that the same guy calls MacReady a murderer after he kills Clark in self-defense.
Always the reason why I think the child’s WE see at the end is the thing since there isn’t anyway the real child’s would go after some shadow in the snow away from potential safety
@@Saturnia2014 Childs is a hyprocrite.
"So Clark was human. That makes you(MacReady) a murderer, doesn't it?"
Damn all this Childs focused hatred. WTF did Childs do to you people?? LOL!
It's so refreshing to see someone who didn't automatically start defending and feeling sorry for the dog. When I first saw this I was the same way, "Why are they trying so hard to kill the dog, there must be a reason?". I knew something was up with that dog.
yes, there's a lot of value in logic over emotions at times
Of course....when you watch the prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, you know about the dog's fate.
Followed by me asking "Why is this dog acting so f-ing WEIRD?! Look at it, it's standing stock still, staring at...you."
I think Carpenter wanted to keep the audience guessing as to who it actually was but in reality Dick Warlock who played Michael Myers in Halloween 2 was on set one day and its his silhouette you see in the room.
We saw the shape... of The Shape.
Yep, which is why all the fan speculation is silly. Carpenter said many times that there are no hints.
@@dosnostalgic Same thing with one of the actor's lack of frost breath at the end of the film. Carpenter has said (I think in the DVD commentary) that it was due to the difficulty of getting that practical effect consistently and NOT an indicator of Childs being a "thing".
Dick was also Kurt Russell's stunt double in "Escape From New York".
@@snowdenwyatt6276 Well Bennet had breath, so that hypothesis doesn't stand.
I like how you are one of the few reactors who understood that Blair was trying to make sure the thing didn't get to a populated area.
Been watching The Thing reactions recently. Got to say this one is the most impressive when it comes to realizing what's going on. She realized the dog was the alien way sooner than all the others, and was also one of the few to realize Blair was destroying stuff so the alien couldn't escape.
Well when you watch enough movies you can start to see where stories are going and guess what might be happening with greater accuracy.
She gets major props from me for the comment when Mac blows up the Palmer Thing. That was exactly what I said, blowing the Thing into many small bits is about the worst thing you could do.
I can see that point, but it's so many degrees below freezing that all those small bits will freeze extremely fast before they can get away....probably.
@@w1975b the other problem is some of those chunks m could have landed on Mac
@@williamcorey4700 some of the chunks could've been fairly large, so would that make it a big mac?
@@TheT0nedude lol
@@TheT0nedude jesus christ
9:50...the dog's called Jed and he's probably the greatest dog actor in the history of Hollywood. It's a tragedy that he never won an Oscar for this performance (or whatever the doggy equivalent is..?)
He's actually half Malamute and half Wolf and the handler warned the cast and crew that if the animal just stops suddenly and just stares at you then you just freeze too and not make any sudden movements.
@@Acme1970 seems like good advice.
The doggy equivalent would probably be lots of treats and belly rubs
@@FlyingPaladin sounds quite good for humans too. 😋
Jed and Jones from Alien. Best animal actors.
She didn't flinched at the blood test scene. I'm gonna need a few minutes to process that 😲
That surprised me too. All those Friday the 13th Jumpscares numbed her to that. I think she noticed the fake hand and was ready for it.
@@YouMeTheMovies Fake hand?
@@SStupendous yeah the fake hand hold the dish for the monster to jump out of.
@@YouMeTheMovies So Kurt Russell isn't actually holding it then?
@@SStupendous nope. Just try to imagine how they’d do the practical special effect. It’s a fake hand with a puppet underneath to pop out.
3:25 -- for those of you who scandalously have never studied Norwegian: "It's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots!" Yeah, us Norwegians are always hopelessly spoiled when we watch this movie.
To be fair, I think most people assume something is up with the dog the in your first watch. In real life we'd reasonably assume the guy is nuts but with a movie we know twists are coming.
I only ever get the last sentence. Because in german you would say "Kommt da weg, Idioten!" and that is very close in sound to whatever the norwegian phrase is.
1/2 of the plot is explained in that line. Carpenter bet (correctly) no american movie goer would understand Norwegian 😀 .
@@Quotenwagnerianer He says, "Kom dere vekk, idioter." Literally "Get yourselves away, idiots", or in better English, "Get away, you idiots!"
Love the way she asks you questions and you just nod.
I loved her reactions to the dog. "somethin's with the dog...." THAT DOG STILL SCARES THE SHIT OUTTA ME. They did SUCH a good job training it to act right. The doggo deserved an Oscar.
Surely the trainer deserves the oscar?
@@Cheepchipsable eh, a blue ribbon so they don’t feel left out ;)
That dog was fantastic, huskies are smart doggos
One of the dogs in the movie was a robotic dog. But I'm not sure which scenes it was used in.
Dog, act absolutely and completely non-dog like...yeah JUST like that!
So happy this film is getting more attention everyone’s reactions are priceless and hilarious
The wife lady NEEDS an R.J. MacReady snow hat immediately !
A masterpiece of acting, writing & atmosphere. The paranoia in this movie is second to none. The Thing was a critical failure in 82, utterly crazy. I am glad this movie is now viewed as the masterpiece it truly
Is.
We shapeshifters can be very productive. When alone In the shed, the Thing person could have had 20 arms and bone hard hammer hands, which would allow it to build things very quickly.
Never seen someone say this before good observation 👍
That's a really good point. Never thought of that.
But when it transforms, it doesn't change back. Splitface couldn't turn back into a human, it could've just turned back to its human self and left outpost 31 in a chopper, Jed, Norris, palmer, Blair, once Gary was assimilated by face, that's it. They dont change back. It's a big misconception that the thing can do all these mad tentacle things whilst human and change back, we never have that explained. When once exposed, that's it. It hides. It doesn't transform until threatened and when it does, that's it. It slowly infects, we know it only attacks violently when exposed. Splitface acted aggressively because it was dying, that's all they had to go on, mac thinks it attacks you. It doesnt, only when exposed, it infects you, blair wrote his notes and Fuchs summed it up that quite possible small infection is enough. The dog didnt thing out on Norris and turn back into a dog, the thing cant do that, it simply infected him. Most likely covered him in drool, quietly. Hiding.
Essential question Nobody asked everywhere :
-Is the Aliens from the spaceship are the mutated creatures...or is the Aliens form the spaceship are themselves beeing infected by the "Mutated Virus kind"??
..And the most logics answers are:
-If the spaceship made a crash land on Earth,it was because the crew were infected and the New creatures didn't know how to make a safe landing..(but this theory was bad because we saw a creature build a little spaceship too..)
-or the last real Aliens wanted to crash to destroy the Mutated Aliens !
But..the answer could be elsewhere,but the spaceship crash was the answer somewhere..or simply the Aliens are the creatures with the capacity of mutated..i don't know..
Anither essential questions:
Why the humans /creatures spoke normally a human language and suddenly when they became Monsters they just rorared and no communicate..
The fascination of this movie was there was a lot of questions with zero answers..
The bioweapon is capable of copying synaptic memories from invaded hosts. This would explain why the ship crashed as they hadn't attained the knowledge yet. But as it 'absorbed' the crew, the understanding arrived (but too late.) The reason for not communicating with the station personnel is very simple. Humans are inferior. What could they possibly have to say that would alter the situation. One simply doesn't talk to it's fuel. That would be like having a one sided discussion with a taco. When it did use language, it was for obfuscation and misdirection. Cosmic horror is always great for material. The ambivalence of powerful organisms rates high on the terror scale.
Most likely an alien parasite. Can you imagine an intelligent species of *PARASITES* like a sentient tick. Their only existence is selfishness.
@BattleAngelFan Yes, I think so, too.
I loved your reaction to this. Just put a big smile on my face.
Love to hear that :)
John Carpenter's: The Thing and Pulp Fiction are the ones fighting on the top of my favorite movie list. Different kind of movies, but they all have some great in common: great story and top notch acting. I can watch both movies anytime, anyday, forever. Btw, the "Cheating B*tch." scene is the first rage quit caught on film. ;P
Pulp Fiction is a joke. Another one of Tarantino's live action Road Runner cartoons.
What? Are you kidding? It's called pulp fiction. You do realise that the 5 cent novels he was trying to pay homage to were known for outrageous story's and things you wouldn't normally find in a book by a "prestigious" publisher. I'm not saying I have any issue with the content, but it's needs to be taken with a grain of salt and not so seriously.
Cheers
That other dog be like I didn’t sign up for this!!😄 10:36
Your wife is an impressive woman. She's way too plot smart. The goal should be to find movies she'll be lost watching. Tenet and Mulholland Drive.
Throw The Prestige on this list. By far my favorite Nolan film
LA Confidential maybe
Memento and Primer.
@@means_well yes pls!..
The game
One of the theories I heard was that Childs was the Thing at the end and this is shown by MacReady's breath being clearly visible (warm bodied being) and Childs was not. I think this may have been confirmed by the director as well, but not sure. Had not heard about the pace maker theory before, which is interesting.
Honestly, I don't put a lot of stock in that theory, mainly because you can actually see Childs' breath when he walks up behind MacReady.
You can see Bennetts breath also.
Doesn’t work. Bennings and the dog were breathing too.
Props to her for being the ONLY person I've watched watch this for the first time to actually suspect the dog might be more than he seems.
This is for the Mrs.
There was an alternate ending shot where Kurt Russell's character Macready is rescued and given a blood test that proves he is not infected. Carpenter preferred the more ambiguous ending and ultimately got to retain it even though the studio initially thought it would be too bleak.
I’ve seen four or five different reactions.
“What seem to be a normal set of organs.” Your response of “Yeah? Tell that to his face” actually had me laugh the most that was the best response I’ve heard 😂
I personally think that Childs is a thing by the end. Childs was unable to trust other people at all. He didn't trust Mack.
Childs thought Mack was a Thing. Another thing is that this movie was made before the theory about jewelry began.
It's also safe to note that childs is wearing the missing coat from the hall at the end of the movie that you see him wearing at the very end.
Things shred all their clothes and childs is not wearing the same clothes.
I love her movie reactions. Lol. And the husband is hilarious with the stoicness.
Ok hats off to you for sitting through this one. One of the best sci-fi creature films ever created and very high on my top 10 List. Great selection!
Glad you enjoyed it!
There was a videogame released in 2002 that is meant to be a sequel to this movie, it was endorsed by John Carpenter. In the game a special forces team is sent to investigate the outposts and they find Childs dead from hypothermia but not MacReady. He later shows up and flies away in a helicopter with the lone survivor, the fact that he survived and didn't die from hypothermia like Childs leads me to believe he's infected.
Same at least for the game there's also a comic that flips it and Childs was the thing but he keeps Mac alive for insurance.
The sound that Bennings Thing makes is a sound that haunts my nightmares, it is one of the most unsettling things I’ve ever heard
One of the best horror/thriller movies. The tension is tangible and the atmosphere is CHILLNG! A timeless classic! I love it!
As far as how long the Thing was building the ship you have to remember that part of it escaped through the ceiling of the dog kennel when it first revealed itself. Then Blair told the others that he kept hearing strange noises while he was locked in the shack alone, and since the thing can create multiple versions of itself with as many arms and appendages as it wants then it could have been easily building the spaceship for days. Just something to think about.
I know if I could have as many individual copies and distributed but integrated parts of myself off doing stuff autonomously, I'd get a hell of a lot more done lol.
It's why AI is kinda scary. It's an alien concept to us, being able to bilocate or exist in multiple places at once as a consciousness.
I believe the companion material, considered cannon, written from The Things perspective, indicates this is just one place it's operating and trying to conquer, that at the same time it's running whole planets in other galaxies right now, because it's an intergalactic super-organism. It's already eaten stronger, better, bigger, more power worlds than ours. It's an existential dread reveal, because even if we kill it here on earth, so what? That's just a small part of it, and now it knows we're here...
8:44 god damn if I'm ever stuck in a horror movie event IRL you'd who I'd want in my team
every single point you're knocking it outta the park!
"He's like a young Kurt Russell." Boy, do I have some news for you 🦄
Fun fact: The dog actor who plays the titular Thing is a wolf dog named Jed! The crew have talked a lot about working with him, how great, professional, and naturally intuitive he was at his job! He practically never looked at the camera, or wagged his tail at inappropriate times. That scene where he’s creeping around the halls allegedly only had 4 takes. Dude took his job seriously and absolutely SOLD the performance.
How grossed out you were is a testament to just how good the practical effects are even to this day. Rob Bottin is the man.
27:12 You are now the 6th person that figure out, Blair could not have built that ship while out in a locked shed. Not to mention no snow piles in the shed from digging. He was infect closely after the Dog autopsy, most likely used the snow cats/ machinery to get that hole done. Once he used the parts, nothing will work at the camp. All his taking apart the vehicles, and helicopter was to build the ship and keep anyone from blowing his cover.
One of my all time favorite. Top 3 easily! I wanted to be like Kurt Russell when i was a kid. What a role model!
Part of the reason this movie is a classic is the use of good practical effects. If they had used CGI I doubt it even be half as popular as it is.
To all intents and purposes, CGI (as we understand it today) didn't exist in 1982. "The Last Starfighter" had the best around when it came out, and you can tell the difference between the 'practical' and the 'digital' effects in it. Think about it ... *1982* means that this came out years before most of the YT reactors, who are doing movies, were even born!
@@ephennell4ever Yeah...if the 1982 film had used CG effects, it DEFINITELY wouldn't hold up today. 1982 did have two films to use CGI, which were Tron and Star Trek II, but in both cases it was depicting what were actually supposed to be computer graphics. Last Starfighter was the first time they used CG to represent what were meant to be real objects.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I seem to remember the prequel used practical effects, but then they decided to add CGI effects on top for some reason. Not have a mix of practical/CGI, but literally cover up the practical effects with CGI.
My first thought when I saw the dynamite was "don't blow it up, then you'll have a bunch more little ones to deal with! If a drop of blood can move on its own, those pieces probably can!" but I've never heard anyone else think so too!
First off, in my opinion John Carpenter's "The Thing" is the greatest horror movie ever made. And second, if you love ping pong then you have to watch "Forrest Gump" (1994).
Fun fact. At the begining the Norwegian (Lars) tells in his language "get away! That dogs not a dog!"
"Why. Why is this still happening?"
That made my day :D
And for '82 the effects are superb.
Kurt Russel may have the beard, but your husband’s mustache just kills. Awesome mustache
wholly shit this is entertaining. one has seen it the other hasn't, that ads a new dynamic
There was a comic series that somewhat served as a sequel to the movie. In it Childs was revealed to be infected and MacReady was chasing after it the comic ended in New Zealand with MacReady blowing up an isolated town and himself up with the Thing and the phrase "Till Death us do part."
crazy how the guy who made the very subtle halloween made this straight up insane movie
Contains my favourite line in a movie "Whatever it is, it's weird and pissed off!"
I always liked "I don't want to be tied to this couch all fucking winter!"
"I don't know what the hell's in there? But it's weird and pissed off whatever it is." And, "I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
FINALLY! I knew this day would come! I swear I even made popcorn for this one!
Notice at the end Childs wasn't afraid to drink from the same bottle as MacReady and while you could see MacReady's breath in the cold you couldn't see Childs breath. Also I believe Blair got infected when he touched the Thing corpse with the pencil eraser and then touched the same eraser to his lip.
there was a sequel of sorts in the "form" of a Xbox an PS2 games called The Thing. Takes place a month after the film, where they send a search and rescue team to investigate and rescue survivors of the antarctic base.
Hi from the uk, loving these reaction videos especially the Friday the 13th ones. Keep up the good work 😄😄
Thank you! Will do!
More Kurt Russell recommends: Death Proof, Stargate, and Soldier
Soldier for sure
Soldier is a great movie, also maybe Kurt Russel most impressive role as he doesn't talk very much and puts everything in facial expressions.
Soldier and Stargate, yes.
Escape from New York and Big Trouble
His best films besides this are definitely Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China and Tango and Cash
John Carpenter intends it to be the first of the Apocalypse Trilogy, the second is "Prince of Darkness", the third is "In The Mouth of Madness".
Best line in the movie 'get me off this fucking couch!!' classic.
"I don't mind gore but.... this is gross!" 😂😂😂
Out of all y'all's reactions this one is the best, it really got her 😆👊
John Carpenter is probably one of my favorite directors. Hammered out a bunch of bangers, then hung up the spurs before he lost his talent. Respect.
"The generators gone"
"Anyway we can fix it"
"It's GONE MacReady!"
One of my favorite parts.
"Good things never happen in Antarctica." Their Chamber of Commerce decided against that as a slogan. It did, however, provide fertile ground for the humor of Gary Larson. Best. Leo.
Love the wife's reaction, The best part was when the legs to the head came out, Surprised Hubby didn't scare her even more.
Childs is armed with a flamethrower at the end. MacReady is armed with a blanket and a bottle of booze, sitting on his ass while Childs stands over him. If Childs was the Thing, he would have absolutely no reason to pretend not to be at that point. He could just open up his face, shoot out a tentacle and game over.
But if MacReady is the Thing, he still has a very good reason to pretend not to be, ie. Childs shooting him in his open face with the flamethrower. It's not really a question of which one of them might be the Thing. We know they can't _both_ be the Thing, or they wouldn't even bother talking. It's just a matter of either/or for MacReady. Of course... if he is, then Childs is already in the process of being infected too.
The other theory for why MacReady chuckled at the end was Child's failed his test. If he was still human, he would refuse the drink as it could be a source for infection.
An amazing classic. I'll share my dad's observation which I love: This movie is only possible because all the residents of the research station are men. If women lived together for months in a close environment like this, they'd know all about one another, but the men are still largely strangers and that's why they can't tell whether someone else is an imposter.
And what would the women do? Give it cups of tea?
Plus I don't buy that.
@@Cheepchipsable I don't think that's the point he's trying to make lol as a woman I love that this is an all male cast. It changes the dynamic completely
@@Cheepchipsable You misunderstand the thesis. The idea is that men don't share and relate to one another, the same way woman do.
Wow, your the ONLY reaction to this movie I've watched that the person didn't say "omg don't kill the dog," or they just get so mad. I'm like come on,for one the dog is not getting killed for real and two,if someone is trying to kill an animal that badly,then common sense should tell you something is wrong with the animal. New subbie just for that.
Exactly!!!
@Raylan Givens Exactly. That's using common sense and human instinct. The Norwegians were literally chasing the dog with a helicopter, bombs, and shooting at the dog in a movie called, "The Thing", yet most reactors are like, "Oh, don't hurt the dog" or "Why are they chasing the dog?"
There's a video game called The Thing and it takes place right after the original first movie and you play a character trying to figure it all out and what happened. You'll find Childs frozen dead and McCready shows up at the end as the pilot taking you to safety. The 2011 version takes place in the Norwegian camp, it's more of a prequel.
At the end, Macready's breath can be seen... Childs' breath is not visible in the cold. Also, I heard that the drink MacReady offered Childs was a Molotov cocktail... so when he took the drink and didn't react from drinking gasoline, MacReady knew he wasn't human.
She's very good at figuring things out in this movie. I'm very impressed!
I think this is my favourite reaction video to The Thing I have seen. And there are a lot of them on You Tube. Love you guys and your content :-)
Childs was a thing. That bottle was likely a Molotov cocktail he made to burn the thing:
Blair was turned the night that Fuchs killed himself. The transformation takes an hour or less at most.
Also Blair could have worked on the ship for hours without sleep and he likely didn’t even know how it works because the thing imitates, it does not need to understand how complex equipment works. So the ship was an imitation of the old ship but likely he understood that he had no way to make it work, that humans were too primitive to have spaceship technology.
Blair got infected after the lights went out when Feuchs got attacked and burned himself the thing (probably Palmer) went for Blair since it was outside anyways then. The one to get to the blood was Palmer since u can hear Windows drop the keys during Bennings attack. The first one to get infected was Norris (although they used a person for the shadow that wasnt a cast member to introduce more of mystery) The whole movie took place over 3 days so Blai had like 2 not full days to build that ship. For me the perfect ending would be one of the theories that MacReady had poured gasoline to that bottle of vodka and was testing childs if he would spot a difference from alcohol and that smirk he gives is that he knows Childs is a thing since he drinks it and pretends all is ok.
Some of my thoughts on this film: Palmer was the silhouette at the beginning. (first infected) He also was the one that picked up the keys that Windows dropped to sabotage the blood. Blair killed himself with that noose, (after having his meltdown) but the Thing could still imitate him, because the cells in his body weren't all dead. The videogame for PS2 actually continues the story. You can watch a video on all the cutscenes for that game here on CZcams.
Another great reaction video and one of my favorite films.
Oh, and please do watch Batteries Not Included, it reminds me of when I was a kid watching it with my grandma.
It really bothers me that the video is canon per Carpenter himself, and yet so many people refuse to acknowledge it and still speculate on things that have been answered.
And in all the years that I've been watching this movie, it never once occurred to me that Blair had, in fact, killed himself with that noose. What a chilling thought. Thanks for that!
@@zenhaelcero8481 You’re welcome. 🙂
I don't think the silhouette at the beginning is supposed to be identifiable. Carpenter deliberately didn't use any of the film's actors for the silhouette because he wanted it to be ambiguous, just as he didn't give either actor an eyelight in the final scene to deliberately leave the ending uncertain. The point of the film, in part, isn't that there's a solvable mystery; it's a study on how quickly distrust and fear of the unknown can destroy a community.
@@michaelccozens I already knew this information and I still have the opinion I do. Yes, he used a silhouette of someone outside the film’s cast to throw you off, but that doesn’t disprove that it’s Palmer. The eye light thing was already disproven. People talk about that all the time, but if you look closely, both actors have light in their eyes in the final scene. We’re also not examining the message of the film, but what’s on screen. I don’t want to argue with you here, but yeah, I still hold to my opinions.
Yes, so when Palmer was smoking a big joint with Childs watching game shows, that was actually THE THING smoking a big Doobie watching game shows… It would’ve been a funny twist if the thing had just mellowed out and not killed everyone after that. Much shorter movie with a happier ending.
"Like an earth worm" what? Earth worms completely take over organic beings at a molecular level?
I miss practical effects in movies. Many 80's movies had fantastic practical effects. It pushed creativity to high levels.
Just saw the thumbnail, oh this is going to be good!
Saw this as a kid on VHS rental, we looked at our dog a bit differently for a while after that 😄
Bedsides ALIEN, this is the best Sci-fi Horror film ever made. Saw this film on July 4th 2002, on the Encore Action Channel and it scares the hell out of my family and I! It's impressive and the special effects still hold up to this day.
Love seeing people react to the amazing/disgusting practical effects.
Pleasantly relaxing video for someone saying "you're gonna die anyways! Do it!" like 40 times
John Carpenter said he knows who's The Thing at the end but he also said he'll never say.
I was waiting for this one!
I think Childs was the Thing. When they went to give Blair the test, they left Childs guarding an outside door. Immediately after the scene where MacReady, Nauls, and Garry find the partially constructed ship, we get the spooky scene of the camera panning through the base, showing the door that Childs was guarding now wide open with snow blowing in, with Childs nowhere in sight. Immediately after that, Nauls observes Childs leaving the base out of the door that was wide open. Now, assuming the scenes are in chronological order, why would Childs abandon the door and leave it wide open, then later leave through the door? I think that during the spooky scene where the camera is panning through the base, the Blair Thing is assimilating Childs. Presumbly, the Blair Thing forced the door open to get to Childs, and didn't have time to close it again.
The fun thing is, it could be both, none, one of them. We'll never know ;)
No way it could have. He had a flame thrower
Everyone gets confused when I claim: "That dog is no dog. That dog is a banana!"
But once it peels like one, they get it. ^__^
That no one can be trusted goes a little deeper than you think. It comes down to the Dogs themselves being unable to detect The Thing until it's too late. In horror flicks, usually dogs give an early warning, but here they don't.
"Captain Ron"... One of the most under-rated Movies of All!
Another Theory... The Cold couldn't kill The Thing, it just went into hibernation. So, What if one of the Things Morphed, then went out into the cold so it could be Found?
And If McCready or Childs was one of them, Freezing would be preferable, as Someone would come and check out the Site (without Knowing).
Guys 11k in less than a day proud of you guys !
Thanks. Happy to see so many people are enjoying The Thing. It's one of my Top 5 favorite films!
There’s a theory-denied by the director-that only the human characters in the film have a small glint/light reflection in their eyes in close-ups; once they’ve turned, the glint disappears in those same characters’ eyes in subsequent close-ups.
There’s also a theory that MacReady filled the liquor bottle at the end with kerosene/gasoline instead of booze; when Childs swigs it and doesn’t react, MacReady gives a short grunt to show that that he’s aware the Childs is the Thing.
And, of course, there’s a theory that both MacReady and Childs were human at the end and that the Thing was just a spare piece of itself that it kept hidden from view the whole time while the rest of it set out assimilating people. (Remember that the Thing, both in the dog kennel and in the heart attack scene, successfully divided into two separate Things.)
Fun fact: they hired an amputee actor-arms removed just above the elbow-to stand in for the Doc for that split-second shot than the Doc twists away from the table after getting his arms bitten off by the Norris-Thing. (Notice you can’t see original the actor’s face during that quick shot.)
The eyelight theory is true of the blood-testing scene, but Carpenter has said that he deliberately gave neither actor an eyelight in the final scene to leave the ending ambiguous.
I've always been curious how it infects/turns people. The blood letting part. They don't really show if they clean the scalpel off or not. Not sure if that's all it needs or not. As far as the final scene goes I've heard it done up as kerosene in the bottle so if Childs was the thing it could be a chance at killing it via poisoning since it used to be used to kill insects and well most living things via ingestion. Also heard it the other way that Mac was poisoning himself so if it did take it it might poison itself or he just might not feel it.
Either way, one of the best way to end a movie like this. Personally I always figured Mac would have tried to kill them both at the last second to avoid letting it freeze to save itself again. Unless they were both infected or already turned.
Major props to being out this long and people are still guessing at it.
They were using real dynamite while filming and Kurt Russell almost blew himself up filming the last scene where he chucks the bundle of dynamite
OK guys you asked for it. I think Childs and McCready were both human at the end of the film. I also think Blair was infected while he was carrying out the autopsy on the Dogthing (he briefly touches a probe or pencil to his lips after touching the Dogthing's body and this is enough to infect him but very very slowly). When they lock him up he's still mostly human but when they visit him the second time and he wants to be released he's now completely Thingified...maybe? 🤔